Seasoned ammunition reloaders are used to shortages, but every shortage looks a bit different. Reloading component shortages are influenced by f political climate, tragedies, military and government component buys, and many other factors. So I’m wondering- what are you all having trouble finding at this time?

Yeah…and I’m sure you are like me or the rest of us…can’t live on the internet just waiting for a “In Stock Notice”….I don’t have an answer beyond smacking hoarders across the chops. I suspect then we wouldn’t need pistol powder since we’d be in jail.

For almost a year I’ve tried to get Bullseye Pistol Powder. I’ve used it in competition in every pistol I own and it works great. Midway; Cabala’s; Wideners; Mid WEST shooter’s Supply; and 3 local stores all advertise it, but it is like Alliant never has it available. I’m on “want lists” but that doesn’t work either, no matter what or when customer service says it will be in stock. This has to cramp competitors. I need 8#, NOT 8-1# cans. I understand Hornady is using it in some of their ammo. Saw a Reference to: “BE86” in a Hornady ad. Anyone got an answer or should I just keep “growing old and praying”?? Thanks, Brent M.

I have been having trouble finding Pistol Powder and some Rifle powders. W231, Varget, BL-C2, and this has been the problem for a long time. I don’t know what the problem is, maybe hoarding or the manufactures are just over whelmed by this administration trying to control the flow because of their edicts. When some of the suppliers get an order in and post it, its gone before you can get on the site. But, we will survive and one day everything will be back to normal, I hope.

Simple hoarding is the issue…..that and those that are still in the ripoff business of buying everything possible and reselling at gunshows…internet..etc. Last night I received an instock notice for 22 LR ammo…..it was gone had to be in minutes…this is total B.S. I tell ya….but it isn’t the governement…it’s shooters we rub shoulders with…the hoarding kind that is. Which causes people like you and I to sometimes panic buy. Christ…I’ve witness people buying ammo just because it was there and for no other reason…or powder…and they’d tell you as much…just buying because I might need it someday. True statement.

I am way overburdened buying gun parts/guns/receivers/etc…I should buy another 10,000 small pistol primers and probably will…after I finish the three rifle builds I’m into at the moment. Does that make me a panic buyer?

Here in the Pacific Northwest, if you reload the so-called “tactical” calibers, there is a wealth of components all over the place.

For the rest of us who do not buy into the “tactical” marketing BS, are not preparing for Dooms Day, and are not inclined to become “make believe soldiers” (the majority of us having killed and been shot at while working for Uncle Sam in WW2, Korea or ‘Nam’), there is a significant dearth of components, most especially brass, that used to be reasonably, often readily, available (think .257 Rem/Rbts, .25-06, .348 Winchester, .358 Winchester, .35 Remington, .220 Swift, etc.).

It’s a fact that it’s the tactical manufacturers’-retailers’ 85% market share that drives this engine. The moral of the story is: If you ain’t tactical, you ain’t s—!

And I ask the manufactures what they control. There product the loaded ammo are on the shelves except for rim fire ammo? It seems like they want to steer sales to purchasing there loaded ammo at a higher cost & limiting the hand loading components? Could this be happening?

I was expecting more detailed categories – I checked powder but in fact I have ample stocks of midrange and slow powder (and primers) including some reported hard to find such as RL15 that I maybe over paid for. Still I have RL15 and H4895 and Varget (paid top dollar and lots of shipping) and Tac and significant overlap really to keep the rifles going. What I don’t have and don’t see – I don’t even miss out by minutes or hours I just don’t see offered for sale – are popular high volume handgun and shotgun powders. I do see niche handgun and shotgun powders like 296/H110 but I don’t see gallery pistol and trap or skeet load shotgun powders.

I see pricey brass – Lapua and Nosler and such readily available in the market place. I don’t see seasonal run and less popular brass generally available with some cartridges that I haven’t seen offered for years and don’t expect to see for months or years to come. Other borderline cartridges like the .220 Swift or the .460 Rowland have been offered rarely as I suppose a true seasonal run and offered buy now or wait for next year.

Although I’m fairly well stocked for the moment and can find most of what I need, I’m spending a lot more time hunting down stuff than I used to. Also, even though shooting sports supply is going up and prices are dropping, especially for ammo, AR/AK magazines, guns and gear, the reloader’s prices are not coming down, or they are still increasing.

I suspect that when ammo prices skyrocketed, if you were lucky enough to find anything for sale, that a whole lot of people started reloading for the very first time and gobbled up components like there was no tomorrow. Used to be, I found all the brass I needed lying on the ground at the range I belong to. But for the past few years, the Brass Fairy hasn’t left me hardly anything. Today, if you want pick-up brass, you have to catch it before it hits the ground, or at least before it cools off. Otherwise, someone else will.

they are rarer than four leaf clovers. I found a one pound can of each once, and never again. I really wish I’d looked at that before dumping all the money on my reloading setup this year. Bought that first, didn’t realize how hard pistol powder would be to find. Rifle as well.

I dont do gun show hunting, so I have to find it online/at a retailer so that’s pretty hard to do. Gunbot so far hasn’t helped, and before i can get my order entered the few times I did it was gone before I completed typing in my credit card.

Right now, it’s shotgun powder. Rifle powder is plentiful, though (4831 and the like, for large cased rounds). Worst seems to be with Hodgdon and Accurate. Both have supposedly had fires in the past few years, but that’s wearing thin.

Secondly is primers, and bullets (Berry) are just getting back in the groove.

I don’t have a problem finding a powder that works. I just can’t find certain specific powders sometimes. For example, I can usually find Alliant Bullseye and Power Pistol with no problem. Hodgdon H4350, on the other hand has been a no-go for me for the last year or two no matter where I look. Alliant RL-17 was easy to find but is becoming more difficult to come across. IMR 4350 is pretty easy to find. It just depends. For the record, I have 2 Bass Pro Shops in my area along with a Cabela’s and several Field & Stream stores. I also have a fantastic gun store that caters to reloaders in a huge way (10Ring… https://www.10ring.com/) but I have not seen H4350 there either.